RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Hypertension treatment in African Americans: Physiology is less important than sociology
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 735
OP 743
VO 71
IS 9
A1 Martins, David
A1 Norris, Keith
YR 2004
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/71/9/735.abstract
AB African Americans have higher rates of hypertension and its complications than do people of other ethnic groups, and they may respond differently to various antihypertensive drugs. Social, cultural, and economic barriers to care are probably more important than any true physiologic differences between races.